Traube
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Ludwig Traube (1818-1870) was a famous clinician who studied under Purkinje, Johann Müller, Rokitansky, and other prominent scientists. He became known for his courses on auscultation and percussion, and his research on lung pathology, fever, digitalis, and cardiorenal relationships.
Encyclopedia article (1928–1936)
TRAUBE Ludwig (Ludwig Traube, 1818-70), a famous clinician, was a student of physiologists Purkinje and Johann Müller, pathologist Rokitansky, and clinicians Schönlein and Skoda. In 1843 he began giving courses on auscultation and percussion, which immediately made him famous. He then turned to experiments and with his two works on the causes and peculiarities of changes in the lung parenchyma after severing the vagus nerves and on the doctrine of findings in suffocation of the respiratory apparatus (1846-47) aroused the greatest attention of all scientists. As a Jew, he was able to obtain a position as associate professor only after the 1848 revolution, and the rank of full professor only in 1872, four years before his death. Besides the works mentioned, his research on fever, the action of digitalis, the relationship between heart and kidney diseases, and the symptoms of diseases of respiration and circulation are particularly noteworthy. All his works were published posthumously—Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologie und Physik, B.I-III, B., 1871-78.
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“Traube.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/traube/